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Monday, March 05, 2012

finally... rsyslog agent for windows released

It's done! We have finally released the rsyslog Agent for Windows, a nice piece of software that enables easy integration of Windows Event Logs into a rsyslog backend system. Ideas for this tool floated around for roughly four to five month, and we had lots of internal discussions. It is important to note that we at Adiscon already have the necessary technology as part of our Windows products (actually, we invented this whole event-log-to-syslog type of software...), so it was just a matter of fine-tuning the code and selecting some useful default settings and policies.

The release is important because it makes clear that there actually is a Windows component (while I tried to convey that several times, people most often did not realize it due to name differences - something with "rsyslog" inside the name was expected). It is also important for me at Adiscon internally: the rsyslog Agent is a commercial product and license sales will make clear that this business is driven by rsyslog. And, obviously, I hope that this will help fund the project without need to resort to other things like premium plugins. This is also why the Agent is so important for the rsyslog project as whole: it will hopefully help to stabilize the funding situation even more.

EDIT: I should probably mention that the Windows Agent was more or less ready when I held its release in order to integrate support for cee-enhanced syslog into it. I am glad I could convince my folks at Adiscon, so that we now have this exciting feature actually available.